Vehicle heater
AssigneeBorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbH
InventorsVictor Ritzhaupt, Alexander Dauth, Michael Luppold, Sisay Tadele, Jörg Baginski
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Abstract
The invention relates to a vehicle heater, comprising at least one pipe, which has a plurality of chambers, ceramic heating elements, which are arranged in the chambers, and contact plates, which rest against the heating elements in the chambers via a front side and face an upper side or underside of the chamber via a rear side, wherein at least two chambers of the pipe are separated by an intermediate wall, which runs from the upper side to the underside of these two chambers. The contact plates have a slit, in which the intermediate wall is arranged.
Claims20
A vehicle heater, comprising:
- a pipe having a plurality of chambers;
- each chamber having a ceramic heating element arranged therein;
- a contact plate configured for electrical contact, the contact plate having a front side contacting the heating elements and a rear side facing an upper side of the chambers or an underside of the chambers;
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- an intermediate wall separating at least two of the chambers, the intermediate wall extending from the upper side to the underside of the chambers, wherein the contact plate has a slit in which the intermediate wall is arranged.
A vehicle heater, comprising:
- a pipe having two chambers and an intermediate wall separating the two chambers;
- each chamber having at least one ceramic heating element arranged therein;
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- a contact plate configured for electrical contact, the contact plate having a slit in which the intermediate wall is arranged, the slit having an open end and a closed end;
- wherein a front side of the contact plate contacts the heating elements in each of the two chambers and a rear side of the contact plate faces an upper side or underside of each of the two chambers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.